{"id":974186,"date":"2019-12-26T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T03:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=931534"},"modified":"2019-12-26T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T03:35:05","slug":"damon-dash-accused-of-sexual-battery-in-50-million-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/damon-dash-accused-of-sexual-battery-in-50-million-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Dash Accused of Sexual Battery in $50 Million Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DamonDashGettyImages-1134781368.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Damon Dash \u2014 who cofounded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/roc-a-fella\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roc-a-fella\" data-tag=\"roc-a-fella\">Roc-A-Fella<\/a> Records with Jay-Z and Kareem \u201cBiggs\u201d Burke \u2014 has been accused of allegedly committing sexual battery in a lawsuit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/damon-dash-accused-of-sexual-battery-in-50-million-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>The Wrap<\/em><\/a> reports. In the $50 million lawsuit, photographer Monique Bunn claims she was sexually assaulted in Dash\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint obtained by <em>The Wrap<\/em>, Bunn claims she was hired for a photo shoot for Dash\u2019s fashion company, Poppington, in April. After the first day of shooting, Bunn claims she went to Dame\u2019s residence that he shares with partner Raquel Horn, where Bunn spent the night in Dash\u2019s daughter\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Bunn was sleeping, Dash approached Bunn and placed his hand on Bunn\u2019s breasts and placed hands\/fingers on Bunn\u2019s buttocks. Dash did not have the permission or consent to touch Bunn\u2019s sexual organs,\u201d the complaint alleges. \u201cDash was wearing a robe and had no underwear on. Dash had been drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reps for Dash, Poppington LLC and Horn did not immediately respond to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach Bunn\u2019s attorney, Christopher Brown, for comment were unsuccessful. Brown told <em>The Wrap<\/em> in a statement: \u201cMs. Bunn looks forward to having a jury decide the litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per the complaint, \u201cBunn was able to get Dash\u2019s hands off her breasts and buttocks\u201d and Bunn told Dash she would fight Dash. Dash then left the room where Bunn remained and she \u201cdid not sleep that evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bunn also accuses Dash of lying about having a television deal with WEtv for a docuseries on the photographer\u2019s life, which the complaint alleges Dash claimed as a means to \u201ckeep Bunn silent\u201d about the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p>Horn, Poppington LLC and Damon Dash Studios are also named in the suit, alongside Dash, whom she collectively accuses of theft by conversion and negligent emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/damon-dash-sexual-battery-lawsuit-931534\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damon Dash \u2014 who cofounded Roc-A-Fella Records with Jay-Z and Kareem \u201cBiggs\u201d Burke \u2014 has been accused of allegedly committing sexual battery in a lawsuit, The Wrap reports. In the $50 million lawsuit, photographer Monique Bunn claims she was sexually assaulted in Dash\u2019s residence. According to the complaint obtained by The Wrap, Bunn claims she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 04:58:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}